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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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while women filled <strong>the</strong> gallery.* On such •sdoo.«i<br />

b occasions, <strong>the</strong>re was <strong>the</strong> additional satisfaction<br />

<strong>of</strong> feeling that <strong>the</strong>y had done something specially<br />

meritorious in running with quick steps, <strong>and</strong><br />

crowding into <strong>the</strong> Synagogue.^ For, was it not to<br />

carry out <strong>the</strong> b£er.«» spirit <strong>of</strong> Hos. vi. 3; xi. 10—<br />

at least, as Babbinically understood ? Even grave<br />

Rabbis joined in this ^ pursuit to know <strong>the</strong> Lord,'<br />

<strong>and</strong> one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m comes to <strong>the</strong> somewhat caustic<br />

conclusion, that ' <strong>the</strong> reward <strong>of</strong> a discourse is <strong>the</strong><br />

haste/® However, more unworthy •Ber.ei motives<br />

sometimes influenced some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> audience, <strong>and</strong> a<br />

Talmudic passage ^traces <strong>the</strong> cause <strong>of</strong> many fasts<br />

to <strong>the</strong> meetings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two «Kidd.8ia sexes on such<br />

occasions.<br />

<strong>The</strong> type <strong>of</strong> a popular preacher was not very<br />

different from what in our days would form his<br />

chief requisites. He ought to have a good figure,®<br />

a pleasant expression, <strong>and</strong> melodious voice (his<br />

words 'Tmd. leo. onght to be ^like those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

bride to <strong>the</strong> bridegroom'); fluency, ia.i.p.s^' speech<br />

' sweet as honey,'' pleasant as milk <strong>and</strong> honey'—'

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